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...criticize Al Gore in your book for having "called for young people to sit in front of the bulldozers at the site of new coal-fired power plants, yet never join them nor sent them any money." What should politicians being doing? They should be doing what they did during the fight against segregation. They should be joining us in these protests, and they should be getting arrested too, you know, rather than just thinking that these young people are the ones that have...
...Consider what he did the last time he saw one of these trends coming: in the early '90s, he traveled the world on his motorcycle, then wrote a book, Investment Biker, that helped popularize emerging markets at the beginning of their long bull run. (See pictures of the top 10 scared stock traders...
...appears to be recovering from the global recession faster than the West. But the financial imbalances that triggered the worst economic crisis in memory could still put the brakes on the world's fastest-growing economies. So warns economist and Morgan Stanley Asia chairman Stephen Roach in his new book, The Next Asia, a collection of his essays and analysis from the past several years that foreshadowed the meltdown. The following is an exclusive excerpt from the book's introduction...
Memories are especially important to Brooker. Three years ago, while buying a history book at a shop in Kent, he looked down and found that he was unable to count the money in his hand. Tests revealed that a congenital heart defect had caused a series of ministrokes. Talking to his wife, he realized that large portions of his memory were gone forever. He has had surgery and feels better about things now. And on the days when the tide is out, you can find him on the foreshore of the Thames, down on his knees, his large hands digging...
...Fountainhead, an epic novel chronicling the struggles of an architect named Howard Roark against conventional values, was her breakout work. In her race to get the sprawling 700-page book to press, she began taking the amphetamine Benzedrine to fuel her efforts. "Rand used it to power her last months of work on the novel, including several 24-hour sessions correcting page proofs," writes Burns. The book brought Rand financial security and fame...